Posts by JohnMurray

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That would be the state pension. Two shillings a week for the over-75s'

It was never meant for the low paid, only the middle classes.

The average life expectancy [of the labourer] in the early 20th century was 46 years.

What we need now is a return to those days, when England had an empire. The navy was manned by forced conscription, there was no health care for the poor and jobs were allocated on basis of a penny a day and free tea, if you bent over and thought of England.

Oh wait....that is what Timmy is in favour of.......now, if employers were decent, moral people who lived by the law of the land voluntarily...

But we all know they are a load of scrimping, whining, tax-evading immoral bags of solid excrement..

Re: @The tick

Of course, employers would never, ever, break any laws. Such as collecting and disseminating information (mostly inaccurate ) about their employees/ex-employees, and then using it to prevent them obtaining employment.

Nah...never 'appen mate.

Oh wait....

And the unions are doing an excellent job protecting their members....by legal action against those companies, mostly ones big enough to have known better.

HMRC current means of defining self employment would seem to mean that genuine taxi drivers are, while many private hire drivers are not.

Pf course, with no paye the gov would be squillions down in income....but we're going down that route anyway, since many employers regard part timers as disposable...

Re: I wish politicians would learn...

Since most of them went to educational establishments that were single-sex, and not the female sex, and their idea of a fun evening was either trashing restaurants or burning twenty-pound notes in front of the peasants, you quickly realise that most of them qualify for state mental health services.

And let's face it, there are so many perverts in parliament not interested in tits that the pr0n filters mainly apply to them anyway, AND they are so thick they would answer YES to the question "are you under 18", just to see if it was a gateway to kiddie pr0n.

Re: On a side note

Re: Superb timing

We are still a signatory to the EHRC, even if, (after the gov dump the law) as individuals, we are no longer allowed the same rights as the other signatories.

The Human Rights Act is not really a human rights act, since there is nothing at all to stop any government just dumping it. Now, if it was entrenched into law, and couldn't be dumped by any government without a referendum (preferably one needing a more-than-40% turnout.......

Re: Time to leave

Really?

About anything interesting?

The turkeys just voted for Christmas, and you think they care enough to demonstrate?

The Conservatives have total control [almost] of the press via their owners (TRTGAS) (Too Rich To Give A Shit), control of the few who insist on contrary points of view will come via "extremist views".

The labour party is about to be de-funded, opposing views from charitable and social organisations has been neutered by the "gagging" law...union strikes are about to be ended by insisting on an over-40% vote (although we have a gov elected by either 24% or 34%, deciding on your viewpoint)

An interesting 5 years is coming....although whether we have any future elections is another debating point!

Re: Good

No offense is committed in the leaving of urine on a floor.

An offense may be committed in the act of urination if the genitals are willingly exposed to other persons, in which case the offence of "exposure" (sexual offences act 2003 section 66) is committed (he also means she).

Having sex with a person who is drunk may well be considered, by a court, to be rape if the person involved is incapable of consenting to sex.

I wonder why DBS Scotland does a roaring business with English companies?

Especially as disclosures via DBS Scotland are supposed to be proportional to country: IE, if the person is resident in England the disclosure is supposed to be under DBS Eng rules. But large s/mart chains get total disclosure from DBS Scot for even trolley stacking jobs.

Re: And they wonder where the money goes?

All the changes have been for the benefit of the service, just not the HEALTH service. The admin services have been greatly duplicated, sometimes the duplication has led to there being so much paperwork that the patient has become irrelevant.

Re: I forget

Re: I forget

They originally started biz as Sim systems, a company started by Bedford council to design bespoke software. The council were persuaded it was a non-starter and sold it to its managers....the rest is history...

The British people are at a higher risk, long-term risk, from the British government, than from terrorists.

Particularly as the British government seems to go out of its way to enrage and empower said terrorists.

However, it seems to me that many people are under the impression that ignorance is prompting this freedom/data grab: Wrong. If this fails to go through ¨they¨ will attempt to railroad it via a legislative back-door (tacking it onto a bill to regulate the colour of public toilet seats, for instance)

This is just another power grab. You go-on considering them to be sad old duffers; I´ll continue to consider them a bunch of power-mad lying, thieving, tossers.

Re: "Anyone care to define the word "direct" in this context?

Neither can receive confidential information about you if you opted out of the care-data scheme....but they can at the moment receive it from your doctors surgery.....

As for private physio...I think you will find that you can self-refer to the local hospital physio dept, the surgery sends you for private physio because they receive a referral fee from the private physio.

I got the ¨free NHS healthcheck¨ letter from my GP this morning...so I phoned to see why..

I asked them if the practice got paid for the healthcheck, or whether it was part of the service. they said: ¨it is an extra, paid by NHS England to each practice, and it is one of our best earners¨

I somehow think that drones equipped with hellfire missiles would be ineffective in the backstreets of Manchester, and consider that using them to take-out drug dealers in the City of London would meet with less meaningful collateral damage; damage that anyone cared about that is. While they're at the hellfire-and-drone, have a stab at Westminster as well. Absolutely no average Joe would give a monkeys at that.

"Hackney Homes and the Council takes [the unintended release of your] data very seriously. while this data is routinely passed around council departments, many of who have no genuine reason for needing it, we find it disturbing that people now know that we are a useless pack of data-mining wasters who really do not give a shit about privacy, except our own of course"

It's probably gained by cross-referencing from other sources. Councils are recipients of large amounts of such information from, for one instance, education sources Any service from a social service department will also have information from your medical records, relevant to that care service.

The list of "healthcare professionals" with [possible] access to your health records is long, and varied:

Doctor

Community Nurse

Registered Nurse

Dietician

Dentist

Pharmacist

Chiropodist

Clinical Psychologist

Psychiatrist

Psychotherapist

Physiotherapist

Occupational Therapist

Art Therapist

Drama Therapist

Music Therapist

Health Visitor

Aromatherapist

Optician

Osteopath

Chiropractor

Speech & Language Therapist

Loads of room for mission creep there, although it should be noted that only those involved in your DIRECT care should be able to legally access your records, many administrative staff will also see the information while en-route. In local councils, local taxation officials will have access to your health records.

Your problem is that your data IS going to be extracted (eventually), even if you opted-out, because that is what the system is intended for. Your opt-out just (theoretically) defines the end users of the data; some get it, others do not.

In the case of your summary care records, you have no say at all. They are only for use by "healthcare professionals" (mission-creep rules apply). http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/scr

Your care.data records are the ones being discussed. http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/records/healthrecords/Pages/care-data.aspx

As always, what you start with is not what you end with. I would be extremely surprised if system resilience had not included considerable user resistance in the design phases, and then designed out the resistance. Care.Data will roll-out, eventually, with end dissemination decided by the design team and not by the data subject. Or maybe you thunk that the DPA exemption for HSCIC was for another reason?

Re: reducing energy consumption

¨The replacement levels for the poor are not the same as for the rich¨

Quite right. If the rich want to have their incontinence pads changing they use other peoples´ children.

The poor just smell and stay wet.

The point being missed in pushing for a zero-rate level of population increase is that at some point over-population will change, quite rapidly, to under-population, and then to extinction.

When the ¨age demographic¨ changes dramatically, coupled to other consequences of first world society (such as having children later in life) you come to a point where the population has aged to a point where increase just becomes a word with no action. You then import population increase.